Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 0

Pros:

First three ingredients are named meat products, grainless, primarily good quality ingredients

Cons:

Some mixed quality ingredients

The first three ingredients of this food are named meat products. The first of these is meat inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once the water is removed as it must be to create a dry product, this ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that it is truely the first ingredient, but would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. Since it is followed by two meat meal ingredients, however, this does nothing to diminish our confidence in the overall meat content of the food. There are further meat products 9th, 10th and 11th on the ingredient list, and another meat meal ingredient 14th. While this is too far down the ingredient list to make up a substantial portion of the food, it adds to our confidence in species-suitability.

The fourth ingredient in the food is egg product. We would have preferred to see the use of whole eggs. Sweet potatoes and peas are further significant ingredients ahead of the fat content.

The product includes some fruit/vegetables amongst the minor ingredients, and has a good range of probiotics. Overall, it looks to contain a reasonable amount of meat and primarily good quality ingredients. We appreciate the absence of grains in the food, which are not a natural food source for canines. Whilst not on a level with most of the foods in the 6* category, overall this food appears to exceed the standard of many in the 5* category, at least in terms of meat and absence of grains. The quality of ingredients does appear to be somewhat mixed, however, and were greater product information available an adjustment to the rating given might be made. This food is thus cautiously rated 6* for the time being.

We do note the inclusion of a fish meal ingredient, but have been unable to locate any statement on the manufacturers website guaranteeing the use of ethoxyquin-free ingredients.